2008 Election Issue- Energy
Obama's Ideas, Proposals and Initiatives

McCain's Ideas, Proposals and Initiatives
  • Provide short term relief to families facing pain at the pump
  • Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future
  • Save more oil
  • Supports hybrids
  • Create 5 million new jobs by investing $150 billion in the next 10 years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future
· Give a $1,000 tax credit for purchasing advanced vehicles
· “ Use it or lose it” to existing oil and gas leases
· Make sure to get 10% electricity from sources that you can make more of by 2012 and 25% by 2015
· Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American families
· Swap oil to cut prices
· Make a Deploy Clean Coal Technology
· Build 1 million plug in hybrid cars in America to put them on the road by 2015
· Within 10 years use less oil than we import from other countries now

  • John McCain wants to commit our country to expanding domestic oil exporation.
  • Change How we power our transportation sector.
  • Will propose a $300 million prize to improve battery technology for full comercial development of plug in hybrid and fully electric automobiles
  • Supports flex fuel vehicles



Sources Cited:

www.johnmccain.com
www.barackobama.com